Havrest Habits

[Tension]

Most of us have found our information for growing good quality medicine from a variety of sources. Some from books, the internet and constant research and sometimes through trial and error or the personal experiences of our peers. Which ever way you learn the craft some areas will always be debatable. Such is the case with the topic of, when and how to harvest. The answers you'll find run from one extreme to another. Some suggesting to plunge the plant into starvation and a week long period of darkness to force a final stress supposedly increasing trichome production. Others suggesting to bombard it with uvb light in the final week and to harvest right at the start of your next days light cycle. The more accepted and moderate approach is a mix of all these methods together. For example uvb light for only an hour a day in the final week along with a standard flush and 48 hour dark period. I wanted some local opinions and methods because I believe that the way I harvest is going to be and should be different from the way someone else harvests in a different part of the country or world. Environment affects every stage of our plants growth, and while I understand all of our true indoor environments are going to be different, we still all live in the same region and experience roughly the same outdoor environment. Unless we are running fully sealed, perfectly temperature controlled rooms then we are effected by it. So with that in mind it would be interesting to learn what methods work best in our area. Personally I have ignored most of the method hype to this point and do a basic one week water feed/flush and harvest at lights on. I am going to add a 48 hour dark period to my next harvest and see how it goes.

What are your harvesting habits Rhode Island?

[hghflyrjd1]

I have heard the 24-48 hour dark does help produce more resins etc..Im sure MadMike and Oldhead and others Might be able to shed some light on this idea.Im going to be doing the 48 hour dark period myself this go around.

[madmikeRI]

48 hours of darkness is a very popular answer. However, this is as stated above a very debatable topic. I think the correct answer is personal opinion, which can only be formed by true trial and error. You can learn a lot by research and reading but somethingâ??s you just have to do to learn. I do not do anything special with my harvests anymore, I have tried the 48hours of dark and did not notice a huge difference, and now that I am running a perpetual grow my options are limited more than others. I have been doing some research on UVB but at this point, I am not ready to try it. This is a great topic for discussion, and I am looking forward to seeing what some of the other experienced growers have to say.

[SoloDolo]

Just throwing in my two cents but with a lot of the reading i've been doing the final dark period before harvest makes the plant stress more and it puts its final production into resins. No input on the uvb lighting but I'm interested...

[OldHead09]

Great informative thread!!!! Good Idea MadMikeRI

[hghflyrjd1]

48 hours of darkness is a very popular answer. However, this is as stated above a very debatable topic. I think the correct answer is personal opinion, which can only be formed by true trial and error. You can learn a lot by research and reading but somethingâ??s you just have to do to learn. I do not do anything special with my harvests anymore, I have tried the 48hours of dark and did not notice a huge difference, and now that I am running a perpetual grow my options are limited more than others. I have been doing some research on UVB but at this point, I am not ready to try it. This is a great topic for discussion, and I am looking forward to seeing what some of the other experienced growers have to say.

Trial and error.Im gonna try it this time and see how it goes.Its worth a shot..